In psychology, Posttraumatic growth is a concept describing positive psychological change experienced as a result of struggling with highly challenging, highly stressful life circumstances.
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12 Facts About Post-traumatic growth
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Posttraumatic Post-traumatic growth involves "life-changing" psychological shifts in thinking and relating to the world and the self, that contribute to a personal process of change, that is deeply meaningful.
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Term "posttraumatic Post-traumatic growth" was coined by psychologists at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Posttraumatic Post-traumatic growth occurs with the attempts to adapt to highly negative sets of circumstances that can engender high levels of psychological distress such as major life crises, which typically engender unpleasant psychological reactions.
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Gender roles did not reliably predict posttraumatic Post-traumatic growth though are indicative of the type of trauma that an individual experiences.
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Posttraumatic Post-traumatic growth refers to positive psychological change resulting from a struggle with traumatic or highly challenging life circumstances.
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Research of posttraumatic Post-traumatic growth is emerging in the field of personality psychology, with mixed findings.
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Posttraumatic Post-traumatic growth was found to be associated with greater agreeableness, openness, and extraversion.
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Dr Richard Tedeschi and Dr Erika Felix specifically note that resilience suggests bouncing back and returning to one's previous state of being, whereas post-traumatic growth fosters a transformed way of being or understanding for an individual.
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Post-traumatic growth makes the distinction between physical and psychological thriving, implying that while physical thriving has obvious measurable results, psychological thriving does not as much.
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The idea of human endeavor here is echoed in another of Meichenbaum's facets of posttraumatic Post-traumatic growth, new possibilities, the idea being that a person's confidence to "endeavor" in the face of novelty is a sign of thriving.
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The significance of social support to Post-traumatic growth found by Michael and Cooper clearly supports Meichenbaum's concept of "relating to others".
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